Covers labor for bloomberg law. Let me begin with a question front and center in the Democratic Party the debate for medication medicaid , who arefor all advocating a public option and keeping private insurance. What is your view . I thought it created a false choice between Union Members who bargained Health Care Benefits and millions of americans who have enjoyed the expansion of health care through the medicaid system. For decades, our members have been fighting for health in this nation and i think the best of the democratic bait is when we stick to the principal of how are we going to cover americans with quality, Affordable Health care for everyone. Host you support private Health Insurance along with public plans . Guest yes, we support every policy that allows for more people to be covered for health Care Coverage. That is why we think it is so important for working people to be able to join together and bargain a better life by having a seat at the table with their employers a
Weld. Joining us from las vegas is the president of the Service Employees international union, mary kay henry. Joining us here in our question is ginger gibson, the political reporter for reuters. And bloomberg laws reporter. Thank you for being with us on newsmakers. Let me bring you a question front and center in the democratic party, medicare for all being proposed by Bernie Sanders versus former Vice President joe biden advocating a public option, but also keeping private Health Insurance. What is your view . I thought the debate in detroit created a false choice between those Union Members who bargain Health Care Benefits directly with their employers and millions of americans who have enjoyed the expansion of health care through the medicaid system. For decades our members have been fighting for health care for everyone in this nation and i think the best of the democratic debate is when we stick to the principle of how are we going to cover americans with quality, Affordable Hea
That is why we are making demands for all. Do you worry that if the democrats nominated candidate supporting Public Health insurance for all would go down in defeat . I think the candidate chosen will be because working people have been in the streets mobilizing and backing a candidate because, what we want are concrete plans and actions to bargain a better life for ourselves and our families. That is a fundamental value of all working people in this economy. I think we will see someone emerge from the democratic field that has the full support of working people and we need bold ideas, because the level of any inequality in this country has just gotten so severe that we want to see the democrats speak to concrete ways that all working people have Affordable Health care coverage, that we will be able to secure a future for our families and the next generation, and we will get health care that our loved ones deserve. Ginger gibson of reuters. Thank you. Mary kay, we have seen a couple of
Reporter for reuters. And bloomberg laws reporter. Thank you for being with us on newsmakers. Let me bring you a question front and center in the democratic party, medicare for all being proposed by Bernie Sanders versus former Vice President joe biden advocating a public option, but also keeping private Health Insurance. What is your view . I thought the debate in detroit created a false choice between those Union Members who bargain Health Care Benefits directly with their employers and millions of americans who have enjoyed the expansion of health care through the medicaid system. For decades our members have been fighting for health care for everyone in this nation and i think the best of the democratic debate is when we stick to the principle of how are we going to cover americans with quality, Affordable Health care for everyone . So you support private Health Insurance along with public plans . Mary yes. We support every policy that allows for more people to be covered. In healt
It with a stolen credit cards it taken from the east alluvial fan parking lot at rocky Mount National park vehicle windows are broken purses and taken out of the law on sunday police asking for your help in finding this person of interest in this case. Is not even labor day and already is feeling a lot like fall maybe youve noticed yesterday the metro getting rained on and off cold temperatures living in but theres a chance in store for the rest of the weekend meteorologist greg dutra outside with more on what we are looking at for this weekend so like we said yesterday was a rainy day today were dwindling away lets adjust to turn off for the weekend we are cutting off the faucet this week and weve got a good a couple more scattered showers before we youve had a chance to go on outside and eat lunch today i highly recommend that wins are light temps are manageable and feels like its only in the 60s right now yesterday at this time here is a look at the 24 hour difference in fact for ru